President Biden says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not doing enough to win the release of the remaining hostages held in Gaza by the terrorist group Hamas. As the saying goes “with friends like these, who needs enemies?” In his first statement since the recovery of ...
by Cindy Sher We called him Hersh. Even those of us who’d never met him. Hersh Goldberg-Polin, the Israeli American with family ties to Chicago, was like a member of our family. He was our son, our grandson, our brother. It’s hard to distill the horror of Hamas’ Oct. 7 ...
by Marc Champion There’s no job on earth less attractive than being a head of state forced to decide between cutting a hostage deal with terrorists that risks encouraging repetition, or consigning innocents to be murdered. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knows this ...
Hamas has a new leader. And his elevation speaks volumes. Last Tuesday, the terror group announced that Yahya Sinwar had been selected to succeed Ismail Haniyeh, the former head of its political wing, who was assassinated last month in Iran. Israel is thought to be responsible for planting ...
The hard-line pro-Palestinian group Within Our Lifetime has been protesting against, of all people, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders. Where did the New York congresswoman and Vermont senator go astray? Didn’t they denounce Israel’s actions in Gaza as “genocide”? ...
Israeli-Palestinian conflict a modern one In a recent letter to the editor, it is implied that the history of this conflict stems back to ancient, biblical times. However, this conflict is a modern one that is about territory, power and control. Certainly, religious identities are a ...